Monninger Quotes

#1. ...'My father called me an enthusiast. I am enthusiastic about things. A lot of things.' - Mary

Joseph Monninger

#2. There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

Kate Chopin

#3. When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Joseph Monninger

#4. Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

Ivan Turgenev

#5. Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream, the odds are good that the waterway is in excellent condition.

Joseph Monninger

#6. It's not ever easy telling a person what they don't want to hear. Because we love them! There will be times; we have to do things in life that will break our own heart.

Ron Baratono

#7. Only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live.

R.A. Salvatore

#8. Why couldn't Satan have made me less beautiful?

Tara Gilesbie

#9. Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

Joseph Monninger

#10. LRH wrote that the aims of Scientology are "a civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights.

Leah Remini

#11. Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have fished beside brown bears in Alaska and was once charged by a black bear. I love bears.

Joseph Monninger

#12. I've taken a mail packet boat along the southern Newfoundland coast and spent some time on St. Pierre and Miquelon watching the seal colonies. I like pine trees. I like cold rivers.

Joseph Monninger

#13. We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.

Joseph Monninger

#14. I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

Joseph Monninger

#15. I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

Joseph Monninger

#16. Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman.

Kathy Lette

#17. I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

Joseph Monninger

#18. They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

Lewis Tappan

#19. What we find in a dog is what we bring to a dog.

Joseph Monninger

#20. We are alive, the wolves said. And the world is beautiful.

Joseph Monninger

#21. As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Joseph Monninger

#22. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Emil Cioran

#23. I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Joseph Monninger

#24. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

Joseph Monninger

#25. I've never liked the moment of seeing something beautiful - a sunset, a moose, an elephant - and then raising a camera and trying to capture it for some future moment. That's always struck me as strange.

Joseph Monninger

#26. Don't spit into heaven... Don't tell the gods your plans; they'll only laugh.

Joseph Monninger

#27. I usually fish a Hornberg or a Muddler Minnow, a deer-haired streamer that comes in a variety of sizes and colors but replicates a sculpin minnow or a grasshopper. Even if a trout doesn't take the larger streamers, it can usually be counted on to come up and give a look, revealing its location.

Joseph Monninger